Gavrilovskoye

Gavrilovskoye lies west of Suzdal in the old Vladimir-Suzdal countryside. Mentioned in a charter of Ivan the Terrible in 1551, it belonged from the middle of the sixteenth century to Suzdal's Convent of the Intercession. Parishioners built a stone church dedicated to the Conception of John the Baptist in 1799, followed by a warm church of the Epiphany in 1823. The village thus remained tied to the monasteries and parish churches that shaped the religious life of the Suzdal district.